It's just that she was very old-fashioned and had strict notions of what was proper and what wasn't.
Woodrow had strict notions of what was right and what was wrong.
Plato holds a very strict notion of knowledge.
Many medical journals have abandoned the strict notion of author, with the flexible notion of contributor.
Islamic texts forbid the association of partners with God (shirk), emphasizing a strict notion of monotheism (tawhīd).
The corporate dinner is for the benefit of a Japanese tycoon who has strict and traditional notions of womanly behavior.
The strict notion of return period actually has a meaning only when it concerns a time-dependent phenomenon, like point rainfall.
"Mean Old World" is also an excellent and wide-ranging anthology that emphasized a broad definition of blues culture above any strict notion of style.
You must despoil her of these strict notions about virtue.
The tunnel is just another example of how the world is becoming too crowded, too interlocked, to live by strict, archaic notions of sovereignty.